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...and will pay for environmental research, private land buyouts, recreation projects and historic preservation work. Budgethawks, however, allied with property rights activists, are lined up against the bill. Congress is expected to vote Wednesday...

...getting seriously frustrated. "Take 'yes' for an answer," pleaded Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., arguing that budgethawks had won a significant victory. They should listen to him so they can end this silly process and begin to tackle the...

...grown substantially, but the important thing in the mind of Sen. Wilken - and he doesn't have a reputation as a budgethawk - is the unsustainability of the budget. Over time, and with the mandatory increases in fixed costs, the state won't...

...go into effect only if there is no increase in the state general fund for the next fiscal year, a measure added by budgethawks in another committee. Whitaker has pointed out that most states have a sales tax and that most of those have municipal...

...Legislative Finance Division Thursday evening, but division Director David Teal estimated about $8 million was added back. Budgethawks on the committee say the product is too big. That's partly due to the size of the governor's original request...

...first. Knowles has declined to say what he would do if such a bill came to his desk. Rep. Vic Kohring, a Republican budgethawk from Wasilla, offered an amendment to the sales tax bill calling for a public vote before the tax could go into effect...

...office and to ensure individual liberties and freedoms are not threatened by state government. He called himself a budgethawk. "I want to make sure Alaska residents never have to pay an income tax, or statewide sales tax, to receive the services...

...did not take transition pay. The Democrats' press release called on Sullivan to pay the money back. What was the budgethawk doing taking city pay before the inauguration, they asked. He was doing the work of transition that the municipal...

...the plan voters objected too, though there were probably a lot of different reasons. Hudson said he's concerned budgethawks will try to hack away at public services. ``Do they want us to go farther than trimming around the edges (of the...

...distinction of being the first highway bill to be hated by almost everybody. Fiscal conservatives, progressives, budgethawks, transit advocates and environmental activists have all called for its defeat.The bill does have some positive elements...